The colonial Medea : a study of indictments of women for serious violence in the Christchurch Supreme Court 1900 to 1968.
This thesis argues that there was a "Colonial Medea" but that her violence against children was not committed as a result of an insane impulse but from social pressure and financial hardship. The first chapter examines the findings of other studies to set - a universal context of women...
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University of Canterbury. School of History
2010
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4338 |